Rami was a former gangster who had such
a difficult time believing God would forgive him of all the evil he had done to
people. If you are of the belief that God could not forgive you of
whatever it is you have done, please read this testimony. There is nothing
we have done that God will not forgive. NOTHING! It doesn't matter
if you were responsible for hundreds or thousands who have died, or multitudes
who may have suffered by something you may have done. God's mercy for us
is infinite; His forgiveness stretches beyond the stars; His love knows no end.

I am a former professional criminal, gangster, drug
dealer, weapons dealer and everything else you could ever imagine. To put it
bluntly, I was a very sinful person, full of all kinds of evil. I would like to
share my testimony with you; how my life changed years ago, through God's power,
while I was in prison. This is a genuine testimony concerning things that have
happened for real to me.

When we come into such a situation in our lives were
nobody can help us, or solve our problems, I want to tell you: Do not give up;there is great
hope!Whatever the matter or the situation in your life might be, all
can end up well! The best yet can come, if you're willing to make a course
change in your life. I made one so please allow me to continue ...

When I was 12-years old, I became interested in
Marshal Arts. I had my first boxingssack and I began weightlifting. A few years
later, my parents moved to Tanzania for work and I had to go with them. There I
got to know one of the best African teachers in marshal arts. He started to
teach me Kungfu, Karate and Tae Kwon Do.

These things soon became the most important things in my
life and they took me over completely. Because I had completed the Senior Grade,
I used all the days from morning until evening training in Marshal Arts. We
trained really hard and when we returned back to Finland two years later, I had
reached the highest level, having black-belts in three different disciplines of
Marshal Arts. I had gone so deep into marshal arts that I had opened myself to
the spirits of violence. They made me very violent and dangerous. I stopped
going to school due to continuous fights in the streets.

I then got acquainted with many professional criminals.
Because I was extremely violent, I got rapid appreciation and I was finally
involved in all kinds of criminal activities. I started to create international
relationships with criminals and very quickly began having dealings with the Mafia. Everything became lawful
and normal to me. I didn't care about anything else. Still nothing in this world
could give me real satisfaction. Consequently I drank more alcohol and took
greater risks.
Many times I was near death, but miraculously I didn't die, though I should have
many, many times.

The first day of 1997 the police captured me. I got a
four year prison sentence. While in jail, I was full of hatred and bitterness.
Even though I knew I deserved a prison sentence of more than 10 years, I was
still bitter. I realized that I would never be able to build a normal, peaceful
life and change my lifestyle.

Something that no human could make whole again had
broken inside of me. From prison, I started to plan bigger and bigger
international criminal businesses.

But one day something happened that changed the course
of history for me. Suddenly -
in the middle of the day - a voice from out of nowhere told me: "Rami, unless you turn away from your
bad ways and repent of your sins, you will die soon and die in your sins."
I knew
immediately it was Jesus that had spoken to me.

After this, Jesus called me everyday, seeking to
draw me to Himself. I tried to escape His call, but after a few months, my back
was against the wall.

One day ... I knew in my heart that now I had to
decide what my answer to Jesus was going to be, who had called me to salvation months
earlier. I had a supernatural knowing that time was very quickly to run
out for me, in this life, anyway.

I made my decision and dropped to my knees in my cell
and said, "Jesus, if you can forgive me of my great sins and change my life, I will
give my whole life to you. Forgive me of my sins".

After this I stopped my
criminal businesses. I told some of my friends, "I do not practice them
anymore." Even though I had made my decision, I was not whole. There was
great conflict going on inside me. Satan pressed me
and I felt that somebody inside of me was trying to get me back to my old life.

A few months later I got vacation from prison and I
went to my parent's place and asked them if they could pray with other believers
for me, that I would be delivered of the things that made me feel troubled and
pressed. My parents, along with one believing woman, laid their hands on me and
started to pray that Jesus would set me free from demons. They commanded Satan
to depart from my life in Jesus name. Suddenly the power of Jesus came over me
and I fell to the ground and I got free from all bondages in my life.

After this, I continued to experience freedom that I had
not felt before in my life. I was free from violence and all criminal stuff that had
bound me for years. One year after this I got released from prison.

However, adjusting to
normal life was not easy for me. I have had many hard times of testing and
trials since that, and
sometimes I have felt that I can't go on, but Jesus has always given me a new
power to arise and go on. Jesus never leaves or rejects a person who comes to
Him. I'm thankful to Jesus for what He has done for me. Jesus came to the most
failed and sinful man I know of. He came to my prison cell and gave me new life.

I know that there is no one who is such a big sinner,
that Jesus could not help that person. He can help and He wants to help and save
everyone. That was the reason why Jesus came and died on the cross for all of
us. The Bible promises that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved. (See: Acts. 2:21)

It is not possible for me to share here concerning all
the miracles and God's supernatural protection in my life that I have
experienced, but I am going to share one very wonderful experience, in order for
us to be able to understand what it feels like when a human being leaves this
physical body and dies. I have experienced how my spirit left my body and I
have died and returned back to my body. Something happened to me, that caused
it, but I am not going to share it here. I remember that prior to my spirit
leaving my body, I was laying down in the ground and I felt like I was from top
to bottom covered with sweat and I felt really hot. Suddenly I didn't feel
anymore pain or agony.

I was looking at myself and I saw how I was laying on
the ground without moving. I looked into my own eyes and I wondered why I was
staring at just one place without any eye movement. I thought to myself:
I am in very bad shape. I remember how some folks who were very close to
me arrived in that spot and
found me. I watched how they were touching me and the other one of them cried
out: "Rami is cold as ice! He doesn't breath anymore!"

I remember how I suddenly
returned back into my body and started breathing again. Before my spirit left my
body, I remembered that I felt very hot and I was perspiring throughout my whole
body. During that whole time period, I didn't cease from thinking or remembering
things, yet I didn't comprehend that I was practically dead.

If someone thinks that when a human being dies, that
person doesn't know anything and that everything is over, I can tell you based
on my own experience - you don't even know that you have died. When it happens,
you won't cease to exist or just disappear. Death is not an end. It is the end
of your physical body, but a real man or woman isn't the physical body. Man has got a
spirit, soul and body. Our physical body will eventually turn to dust, but
our soul and spirit is incapable of ceasing to exist. It will live
forever.

It is God's great grace, that I am alive. I shouldn't be,
as death has been more than close to me on various other occasions.

Many folks who hear my testimony or read concerning my
life, tell me: "It was a very good thing for you, how God has helped
you and all
those miracles that have happened to you, but it just isn't right for me."

I want to tell everybody: It doesn't matter at all how good or bad folks have been, if
Jesus Christ is the Lord of our lives and our personal Savior. Each one of us
has to make a personal decision and to confess our sins, whether they are little
or big things, and to ask Jesus to become the Lord of one's own life.

The Bible tells us in (John 3:16-17): "For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn't send his Son
into the world to judge it, but that the world would be saved through him."

We
will get saved only by faith in Jesus Christ, by what God the Father
accomplished through Him by His dying on the Cross, and not through our own works
- our own personal merits - our own religious thoughts that are contrary to the
clearly stated warnings from the Holy Bible of trying to be "good enough" to be
forgiven for our sins on the Judgment Day. I know
that I have committed a lot of sin and wrong. However, I need to live close to
God on a daily basis. Things like the drug deals, robberies, violence and murders
are sin and are things to be judged. Likewise, we have to repent of our lies,
evil thoughts, evil speeches, our lusts, all of our sexual sins, our
fornications, etc. The Bible makes it very clear what sins we need to
confess and be cleansed of (forgiven) by the shed blood of Jesus. It is easy to pay attention to big mistakes and to be blind
to lesser things that are also wrong in God's eyes. One sin will send us
to hell for eternity, no matter how "small" and "insignificant" we think it
might be, if we don't acknowledge our need to be cleansed by the innocent shed
blood of Jesus.

Remember, that every sin we keep secret -- we try to
hide from others -- it has power over our lives. It gives the devil
legal rights to place a curse upon us to one degree or another. A curse
from the devil hinders the full blessings of God to come upon our lives, either
in this life or the next, or both. Sinning always has negative
consequences if we don't quickly confess it and stop doing it over and over.
All sin is forgiven when we commit it ... but that doesn't automatically assume
their aren't "lasting scars" left behind that sin leaves.

We are saved by God's grace, when we believe,
that Jesus bore our sins on our behalf and that He rose again from the dead
through God's power and He lives today. Yet we cannot practice or approve of any
kind of conscious sin in our lives once we become saved - not indefinitely
anyway. A conscious approval of sin and continuing to practice
it consciously separates us further and further from God, one way or another.
You can believe in God and be very much aware of spiritual matters, but don't let the
devil deceive you because of the goodness of God. God is a
God of mercy, but he doesn't approve of sin, whether it is big or little sin.

God does not always judge our sin speedily.
Sometimes he will allow us to keep repeating that sin over and over, and it can
become somewhat easy to begin to believe that evidently our committing that sin
evidently isn't so "bad" or "harmful to us" afterall ... because otherwise
God would have done something sooner, we rationalize. This is the classic
"testimony of woe" many Christians can tell who didn't judge themselves in time
before God did the judging for them. God tells us in His Word that if we
will judge our own sins, He won't. But He also states that if we don't
judge our own sins, He WILL. And when He allows our sin/s to be judged ...
woe is me!

Many folks are sometimes shocked and even angered when such a
person like myself, who has such an evil past and full of sin ... admonishes
others to
repent of even their minor sins. The wisest person walking this
planet is the person who walks in fear and trembling realizing that compromise
with God is just one step away from coming under His possible judgment in one
form or another. Desiring God to bless you while you keep on sinning would
be no different than Satan expecting God to bless him while he keeps committing
sin both against God and those of us alive here on this planet. God does
NOT bless sin. He forgives it; but the NEXT step He expects is for us to
get serious about stopping committing it AGAIN. If you can't seem to get
lasting victory over a stronghold of sin in your life, here is a weapon God has
given His people to permanently break strongholds of sin in their life:
The Awesome Power Of Fasting

My testimony is an encouragement concerning what
God can do for a human being. It is an encouragement for each one of us, whether
you are a killer, drug dealer, murderer, terrorist, prostitute, a thief, a cheat
or however of a sinful person. I would like to tell you that Jesus came into
the world just for you; He died on a cross and bore God's punishment for
your ALL yours sins. You can be
delivered and live a spiritual life you didn't know was possible!

I also have an announcement for those who are attending
church and who have received God's blessings already upon your life to one
degree or another. You might be rich, famous, or a
person who has had success in some area. Folks would like to be your friend or
they are envying you, and in spite of all of your blessings, you might be
addicted to various kinds of addictions: like pornography, lying, cheating on
your partner, lusting after things that are none of your business or you are
stuck with another kind of bondage. If Jesus can set free a big sinner and
criminal, He can also deliver you and give you power to put away your smallest
sin.

Sometimes ... we have to get so sick and tired of our
sin that we need to go to God and refuse to leave His presence until we get
assurance from Him that He will provide a way for us to have that stronghold of
sin broken off our life. Sometimes we even have to do more than just
THAT. Sometimes we need to pray and trust that God will make us
determined ENOUGH to even WANT an area of sin broken off our life. Again,
fasting with prayer can do that, as the Holy Spirit leads you.

In God's eyes one sin is as wrong as another, (though
the immediate consequences of some sins have more serious ramifications than
others, I realize), and all manner of conscious sin
will eventually keep
separating us from God, even to the point where we totally stop even praying to
Him or being able to trust Him for anything, up to and including our very
eternal salvation!

God, who delivered me from my "big" sins, has awakened me
from the spiritual dead and has given me a new spiritual life. He forgives you and sets you free,
whoever you might be, a "small" sinner or "big" sinner. God's grace is powerful
enough to allow you to live
right and free from all bondage of the sin, what ever kind they might be.
Just because you haven't realized victory over one or more sins in the past does
not mean it can't happen or won't happen. Keep pressing in with God.
His mercy is different for each of us, so don't ever get so discouraged that you
listen to the devil's voice in trying to convince you that hope in God has run
out for you. That is always a classic strategy of the devil when we
are trying to walk in victory over areas of sin in our life, once we've
committed our lives to Jesus Christ.

I just
want to say, in conclusion, that I am not here to judge anybody. You might have
gotten upset due to something that you read here, or you do not believe any of what I
have told you. I love you! I do not judge you or accuse you. The Word of God
says that anybody who does not believe in Jesus Christ, has already been judged.

"For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who
believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God." - John 3:17-18

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and
he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides
on him." - John 3:36

Jesus died in order for us to be free from eternal judgment for
our sins, and with eternity in hell as our punishment for them. Believe in Him.
Each one of us has to choose either spiritual life or continued spiritual death. We have a free will. We
ourselves decide what we choose. We are not perfect; only Jesus is perfect, but
the
Bible tells us in 1. John. 1:7:

"But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from all sin. (1:8): If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are
deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. (1:9) But if we confess our sins,
he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all
unrighteousness. (1:10) If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his
word is not in us."

It is my prayer that this testimony will encourage you
and give you hope and will bring about change in your life for His glory and you
spiritual growth. Whoever you are, I call
you my friend. I want your life to be fully blessed by God. What
kind of friend would I be if I didn't want that for you? Yet I also know
your life will never be fully spiritually blessed until you surrender to the
Truth of what God accomplished for you on the cross. Knowing about that
Truth is one thing. Surrendering to that Truth is what qualifies you to
enter into spiritual life that will bring you eternal blessings. To be
blessed, you have to walk down the correct path. I've made it perfectly
clear which path that is.

Thank you for taking the time to read what I've shared,
and may you never be the SAME from this moment on - to the glory of God!

"And this gospel of the
kingdom [Jesus
died for sinners] shall be preached in all the world for a witness
unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
(Quote from Jesus Himself: Matthew 24:14).

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